
About
Fan of design & code.
Work Experience
Making design tools and prototyping new experiences.
Designed FB/IG features for sellers like Sephora. Created ML data insights systems at FB AI.
Taught students how to recreate Slack using microservices.
Came up with a new taxonomy for ad formats and redesigned the format selector.
Side Projects
Built a Figma spell checker that runs 100% locally.
Helped a friend prototype a better transit experience.
Asked my favorite designers what book to read. Product Hunt #1 Product of the Day.
Led UI design/development for a cold gas thruster controlled pod. Became the #1 U.S. team and won the Innovation Award.
Space X video (interface at 1:10): youtube.com/watch?v=AO0sPM…
Made a $75 Sonos alternative using Raspberry Pis, Go, and JS.
Organized and did design/development for the PNW's largest collegiate hackathon.
Created a tool that recommends Design Details episodes. Did the project once in 2017 (CLI) and another time in 2020 (website).
Featured on the Design Details podcast.
More side projects on Twitter (twitter.com/vincentmvdm) and my old website (vincentmvdm.com).
Writing
Yuki Asakura and I explain how to create a ride share app in Framer.
Speaking
A talk about how I pushed Framer's limits for a year.
Features
A piece about our capstone: mission control for air ambulance Airlift Northwest. Received the best in class award.
I was young and naive but at least the title is funny.
Education
HCI & Data Science tracks. 3.82/4.00 (cum laude).